Microsoft Outlook: Extend Sensitivity Label to Meetings (GA Release)

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 10, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Sensitivity labeling will soon be available for meetings in Outlook.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98924

When this will happen:

We will begin rolling out in mid-February and expect rollout to be complete by late March. Timeline as below:

• Feb-23: Outlook Web
• Mar-23 : Outlook Mac
• Mar-23: Outlook Win32

How this will affect your organization:

Pre-requisite – E5 subscription

With this update, in the SCC portal, once admins configure sensitivity labels for meetings, users can apply sensitivity labels to meetings and protect its content.

In Outlook Web (OWA), Mac and Win32, users can apply sensitivity label to meetings.

The meeting content (meeting body and file attachments) gets encrypted, attendees can view the decrypted content in OWA, Mac and Outlook Win32. Attendee’s responses to meetings are also encrypted.

Outlook mobile:

• In Outlook mobile, users can open the decrypted meeting message from their inbox, however, the meeting invite content in calendar will not be decrypted and the link to the encrypted meeting will be available.
• Users cannot create meetings with sensitivity labels in Outlook mobile.

In other clients, such as Gmail, which cannot decrypt Microsoft encrypted content, the user receives a link to the encrypted meeting message. Upon authentication, they can view the decrypted content (like e-mail).

What you need to do to prepare:

Outlook Win32 and Mac – Admins need to be in the Production ring monthly channel to get the build that provides ‘compliant/ protected meeting‘ capability. For additional information, please visit this documentation.

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